We do not have access to a document Google to reach the European Commission (the body regulates relations market in that continent) that seems to bring an agreement between the most important search engine in the world and the commission. Google would have agreed to modify their algorithm seeks to meet a government demand, if the reports of the English newspaper Guardian is correct.
Is time that the European Commission investigates Google on charges of trust. – Act on the market in order to ensure dominance Article written by me in this our site in February 2010 talked about it and brings some explanations. After many ups and downs in the process, the Commission offered an agreement with the search engine from Google to answer four main points of concern to Europeans. The document delivered this week by Eric Schmidt, the company's chairman, should point solutions to these problems.
The Commission questions the way Google ranks some own resources in the search results. They are: products, videos and maps. "Competitors complain that Google places its own resources well above those listings than rivals, giving them an unfair treatment and unfair advantage when Internet users viewing the results," says the British newspaper. Everything leads us to believe that Google has agreed to modify these rankings. Baita victory of the European Commission if the information is confirmed.
Investigations like this happen in other countries, including Brazil. A group of Internet companies led by Buscapé asks the Ministry of Justice the highlight with the recommendations of products appear in Google results when they are shopping lists provided by the company. The FTC (Federal Trade Commission or the Federal Trade Commission) of the United States is also investigating the so – called googlepólio.
While answers to some criticism in the Old Continent, the same company has already warned that intelligent product recommendation for the United States will be modified depending on the amount paid by manufacturers for their products appear more prominently. Would be equivalent to sponsored links, but applied to products with complete plug and critical evaluation a click away. Probably American agencies will also lead this new feature of the algorithm into account when they consider the case.


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Q: Converting text field with date to a date formatted field I have a column with dates formatted like this:
July 14, 2015 11:02

How can I convert this to a DATE format for easier querying? (I don't necessarily need the time, if that makes it easier?)
EDIT

EDIT 2
The month isn't being calculated correctly

A: With your value in cell A1, this formula will isolate the date part:
=LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",CHAR(1),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))-1)

by discarding everything after the last space (the time part)
To convert this to a true date, use:
=DATEVALUE(LEFT(A1,FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",CHAR(1),LEN(A1)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(A1," ",""))))-1))

To do this conversion "in-place" would require a macro.
EDIT#1:
To find any "junk" characters in your data, place a sample date in cell A1.  then in B1 enter:
=MID($A$1,ROW(),1)

and copy down.  then in C1 enter:
=CODE(B1)

and copy down.  You should see:

EDIT#2:
Given your data in A1, this formula:
=--MID(A1,FIND(", ",A1)+2,4)

will return the year (2015).  This formula:
=LOOKUP(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)-1),{"January","February","March","April","May",",June","July","August","September","October","November","December"},{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12})

will return the month (7).  This formula:
=--MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,FIND(",",A1)-FIND(" ",A1)-1)

will return the day (14).
Putting this all together:
=DATE(--MID(A1,FIND(", ",A1)+2,4),LOOKUP(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)-1),{"January","February","March","April","May",",June","July","August","September","October","November","December"},{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12}),--MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,FIND(",",A1)-FIND(" ",A1)-1))

This formula avoids regional sensitivities associated with DATEVALUE().
EDIT#3:
As you discovered, the month array must be sorted, so use this for the month:
=LOOKUP(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)-1),{"April","August","December","February","January","July","June","March","May","November","October","September"},{4,8,12,2,1,7,6,3,5,11,10,9})

and this is the "final" formula:
=DATE(--MID(A1,FIND(", ",A1)+2,4),LOOKUP(LEFT(A1,FIND(" ",A1,1)-1),{"April","August","December","February","January","July","June","March","May","November","October","September"},{4,8,12,2,1,7,6,3,5,11,10,9}),--MID(A1,FIND(" ",A1)+1,FIND(",",A1)-FIND(" ",A1)-1))

Edited to remove a space in the formula (Edits must be 6 char, hence this description)

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// ****************************************************************************
// <copyright file="MarketplaceSearchAction.cs" company="Pedro Lamas">
// Copyright © Pedro Lamas 2011
// </copyright>
// ****************************************************************************
// <author>Pedro Lamas</author>
// <email>pedrolamas@gmail.com</email>
// <date>05-06-2012</date>
// <project>Cimbalino.Phone.Toolkit</project>
// <web>http://www.pedrolamas.com</web>
// <license>
// See license.txt in this solution or http://www.pedrolamas.com/license_MIT.txt
// </license>
// ****************************************************************************

using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Interactivity;
using Microsoft.Phone.Tasks;

namespace Cimbalino.Phone.Toolkit.Actions
{
    /// <summary>
    /// Represents an attachable object capable of making searches over the marketplace.
    /// </summary>
    public class MarketplaceSearchAction : TriggerAction<FrameworkElement>
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// Gets or sets the search terms.
        /// </summary>
        /// <value>The search terms.</value>
        [Category("Common")]
        public string SearchTerms
        {
            get { return (string)GetValue(SearchTermsProperty); }
            set { SetValue(SearchTermsProperty, value); }
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Identifier for the <see cref="SearchTerms" /> dependency property.
        /// </summary>
        public static readonly DependencyProperty SearchTermsProperty =
            DependencyProperty.Register("SearchTerms", typeof(string), typeof(MarketplaceSearchAction), null);

        /// <summary>
        /// Invokes the action.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="parameter">The parameter to the action. If the action does not require a parameter, the parameter may be set to a null reference.</param>
        protected override void Invoke(object parameter)
        {
            new MarketplaceSearchTask()
            {
                SearchTerms = SearchTerms
            }.Show();
        }
    }
}

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Luke Bryan is speaking out on the family tragedies that struck as he was beginning to pursue his musical dreams — and why he didn't let them stand in his way.
The "That's My Kind of Night" singer was mere days away from moving to Nashville to try and make it as a country singer in 1996 when his older brother was killed in a car accident. The death of Chris, who was 26 at the time, caused Bryan to take a step back and put his career goals on hold.
"I was never convinced I'd get back to Nashville, but I didn't spend time on 'Should I go or should I not?'" Bryan tells People (quote via CMT). "It was just 'Not going.' Your mother had just lost a child. At that point, her youngest son was not going to leave the house. Chris' dying got me a little more mature."
Bryan started working for the family business at that point, but his unhappiness was obvious. With a little push from his dad, Bryan moved to Nashville in 2001. There, he was offered a record deal and a publishing deal, and he started making his very first album, I'll Stay Me. Tragedy then hit Bryan's family again when his sister Kelly, who was 39 at the time, suddenly passed away when she was at home with her young son.
The singer has finally come to terms with the death of his brother and sister with the help of his faith, but wishes his sons could meet his siblings.
"I don't like that my sons are missing that side of my family," he shares. "But someone else is deciding things."


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Genre: Romance | Literature & Fiction | War
Citizen Soldier Series/Book 1: Ben
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But he's seen many relationships go south. If he takes a chance and gives up control, will Lea be like her sister and leave him for a career in the big city? Yet, if he doesn't, will the best damn thing to ever enter his life become history?
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Roth's three journals were discovered many years after his disappearance, tucked away in the home of his brother, with whom he was known to have had a deep bond. After his brother's death, his family discovered them and quickly sent them to Rosel, Roth's wife. In time, Rosel handed down the journals to Erika, Roth's only daughter, who had meantime immigrated to America.
Hans Roth was doubtlessly working on a fourth journal before he was reported missing in action in July 1944 during the battle known as the Destruction of Army Group Center. Although Roth's ultimate fate remains unknown, what he did leave behind, now finally revealed, is an incredible firsthand account of the horrific war the Germans waged in Russia.
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Par André Lapointe, REGARD EN COULISSE Le dimanche 15 avril 2018 à 19 h 08 min Le Centre Segal est fier de présenter à Montréal la première mondiale en langue anglaise de The Angel and the Sparrow du 15 avril au 6 mai 2018. Inspiré de l'histoire vraie de Marlene Dietrich et Édith Piaf, deux…
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Also this Friday, Crayola Experience will launch "First Responder Fridays" which gives police officers, emergency medical technicians and firefighters free admission on Fridays through Sept. 30. Spouse, children and grandparents also will get 50 percent off admission every Friday during that period.
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Teenage girl injured in attack by teen boys at New Brighton bus stop
Ryan White CTV Calgary
Published Friday, April 12, 2013 5:27PM MDT Last Updated Saturday, April 13, 2013 1:49PM MDT
Calgary police are treating a late night attack on a teenager as a possible hate crime.
The attack happened Thursday evening in the southeast community of New Brighton.
"I have a black eye, a split lip, the inside of my cheek is cut, a cut on my forehead, and my eye is so swollen I can barely open," says the victim.
CTV Calgary has agreed to withhold the identity of the victim at the request of her family, who are concerned about retribution.
The 17-year-old lesbian was jumped late Thursday night, shortly after getting off a transit bus near her home.
The victim says a group of four teenagers attacked her, punching and kicking her several times, while using homophobic slurs.
She says one of the attackers recorded the beating on his phone.
"(I'm) pretty shaken up, it's hard not to be scared," says the victim. "This is my neighborhood and I've always felt safe in it and now I don't."
"I've had people throw things at me and play 'pick on the lesbian on the bus', and put gum in my hair but nobody has physically assaulted me until now."
Members of the Calgary Police Service spoke with the victim Thursday night and again Friday morning, and the CPS Hate Crimes Unit are investigating the attack.
Officers are uncertain if the victim in the attack was targeted because of her sexuality or if it was a random attack.
The victim says she's never hidden her sexuality and she acts as a mentor to other gay teens at her school. She adds that although her attackers used gay slurs, the teens may have used the hate terms no matter who they were attacking and she may have just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Anyone with information about the attack is asked to contact police or Crime Stoppers.
With files from Chris Epp
This bus stop in the southeast community of New Brighton was the scene of an attack on a teenage girl on Thursday April 11, 2013
Cuts, scrapes and bruises on the face of the unidentified victim in the April 11, 2013 attack in the community of New Brighton
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India: Voters Cast Ballots In State Elections While Armed Troops Patrol Streets. 1972
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Early reports from the state elections in India show that Mrs Gandhi's Congress Party has made sweeping gains in the sixteen states where voting has taken place.
GV Marxist posters in West Bengal street & people (2 shots)
GV Portrait of Lenin in square & army trucks past (2 shots)
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SV Posters of Mrs Gandhi
SV Crowds at polling station (2 shots)
SV Voter collecting ballot papers
SV INT. Man & woman places vote in ballot box
GV Crowds & posters in New Delhi street
SV People collect ballot papers
SV INT. Ditto
SV When voting (2 shots)
LV People leaving polling booth with troops standing by
GV Village near Delhi
LV People queue to vote (2 shots)
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Background: Early reports from the state elections in India show that Mrs Gandhi's Congress Party has made sweeping gains in the sixteen states where voting has taken place.
There was a heavy turnout - up to 70 per cent - in most places, and results indicate that the Congress Party will hold about 80 per cent of the seats at stake when counting is complete.
In one major state - West Bengal - few results have been published and final figures are not expected until Tuesday (14 March).
The state elections have been going on all week and have been marred by outbreaks of violence in which a number of people have been killed and injured.
When voters went to the polls on Saturday (11 March) large contingents of armed troops were patrolling the streets to deter troublemakers.
SYNOPSIS: Calcutta - the major city of West Bangal, and tension on Saturday during voting in the state election. West Bengal is one of sixteen Indian states which elected new state legislatures during the week. In West Bengal, Mrs Gandhi's Congress Party was expecting a tough fight with the Marxist party. Soon after the polls closed a Marxist candidate demanded that the vote be declared void....because of alleged intimidation by Congress workers. Troops patrolled the streets of Calcutta after a week marred by outbreaks of election violence. On election day itself the presence of troops failed to prevent further violence in which at least four people died and forty were injured.
Mrs Gandhi's ruling Congress Party has reason to be pleased with first returns from the state elections. All indications are that the party has made sweeping gains throughout India - possibly to the extent of winning eighty per cent of the seats at stake during the week-long election. However - in West Bengal - candidates must wait until Tuesday at least before final results are published. A politically unstable state - this was West Bengal's fourth state election in five years.
Voting was also going on in India's capital, Delhi, on Saturday. There, the Congress Party was confidently expected to increase its representation in the state legislature. Mrs Gandhi's personal popularity in the city is at a high level - and the Party based its campaign on its leader's ability. She has promised an all-out drive on property. The turnout of voters was described by election officials as very good - with about 70 per cent of eligible voters casting a ballot.
In New Delhi, tension was lower -- but troops kept watch.
Voting enthusiasm wasn't confined to the major cities. In this small village outside Delhi, queues formed at many polling stations. As election results turned increasingly in favour of the Congress Party, it was predicted in Delhi that the Party will control nearly all the country's state legislatures.
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Ashlie Brillault (* 21. Mai 1987 in San Francisco, Kalifornien) ist ein US-amerikanisches Model und Filmschauspielerin.

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The most common type of neuropathy is called peripheral neuropathy. Typically, this is the cause of neuropathy of the feet. However, other types of nerve disorders, particularly autonomic neuropathy, can cause symptoms of foot neuropathy. Because autonomic neuropathy can manifest itself in myriad systems of the body, it is often diagnosed as the culprit when more specific neuropathies, such as peripheral neuropathy, cannot be identified.
An estimated 30 percent of all peripheral neuropathy symptoms in the foot are caused by diabetes. Though symptoms vary from patient to patient, the common ones are pain, tingling and/or numbness in the legs and/or feet or impaired balance in the legs or feet. Whether a patient will inevitably develop neuropathy largely depends on how well their glucose levels can be managed or controlled. Cases that are not caused by diabetes may be easier to treat.
Foot neuropathy is typically diagnosed after a series of tests, including electromyography and nerve conduction studies have been performed. Physicians use these tests to help determine the depth and breadth of neuropathy that may be present. Another way physicians determine the extent of foot neuropathy is to gently rub fine filaments against the patient's foot. In this way, doctors can measure how bothersome the neuropathy is to the patient.
There are certain drugs that can be used to relieve neuropathy symptoms, but there is no medication that provides a cure. Depending on a variety of factors, different classes of drugs may be utilized, including analgesics, antidepressants and/or anticonvulsants.
Anti-depressants such as certain medications affect two neurotransmitters in the brain, serotonin and norepinephrine, and show effectiveness in treating peripheral neuropathy. Drugs like other medications affect GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) in the brain, which is directly related to sleep. These medications help alleviate neuropathic pain and soothe nerves.
Opioids are also used to treat neuropathy but have strong addiction possibilities as well as side effects. Therefore, these medications can be used for severe pain, but addiction and side effects should be considered.
Researchers are not exactly sure how anti-convulsant drugs work. It is widely believed they keep pain signals from reaching other parts of the brain. These drugs may also block sodium channels in the brain, which slows down the activity of nerve cells.
Vitamins – Pain and numbness from peripheral neuropathy can be controlled by B vitamins. Vitamins B1 and B6 have been used to slow down the development of neuropathy associated with diabetes. The treatment of peripheral and central neurological disorders has been based on a lack of vitamin B12. Neuropathy symptoms brought on by a long period of diabetes or hemodialysis for kidney failure can be improved by Biotin. Pantothenic acid can assist the production of adrenal hormones and the creation of antibodies to combat neuropathy. Alpha lipoic acid and Acetyl-L-Carnitine have been also found to be helpful treatments for neuropathy symptoms.
Herbs, Minerals, and Oils – Neuropathy symptoms can also be helped by several herbs, minerals, and oils. Skullcap and St. John's Wort may help to soothe the nervous system and relieve nerve pain. Evening primrose oil may ease some symptoms of neuropathy connected with diabetes. Magnesium has been associated with calming the nervous system. Cayenne pepper, used as a cream or salve, has shown some success in treating localized areas with neuropathic pain.
Homeopathic Treatments – Many homeopathic remedies can be used to treat symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. Hypericum soothes neuralgia and pains in the fingers, toes and limbs. Aconite is used for shooting pains, tingling, numbness and swelling. Catharsis is recommended for tingling and burning soles of the feet. As with any treatments, consult your doctor before you add any of these natural remedies to your diet.
In order to lessen or all but eliminate foot neuropathy, you will probably want to make some changes to your lifestyle. First of all, it is important to take care of your feet. Any cuts, blisters or calluses can easily turn into a larger problem if not taken care of early on. Toxins like cigarette smoke can affect circulation, which can further add to foot problems.
On the other hand, a healthy diet can help control neuropathy. A good diet will include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat meats, and dairy products. Another good practice is massage of the hands and feet. This treatment can improve circulation and relieve pain. Exercise is also a great way to control neuropathy symptoms. Consult a physician about a proper exercise plan that can both reduce pain and control blood sugar.
Neuropathy of the feet, often referred to as peripheral neuropathy, has no cure yet. Treatments focus on reducing symptoms and making neuropathy more manageable. If this is your case, work with your doctor. Together, you can come up with the right treatments to reduce your neuropathy.


Lifelong educator and community college champion, Dr. Jill Biden, sent a powerful message in her keynote address earlier this month at the seventh annual EducationUSA Forum that "education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom." The U.S. Department of State's EducationUSA network reaches millions of international students each year and provides accurate, current, and comprehensive information about opportunities to achieve their dreams of studying in the United States.
At this year's EducationUSA Forum, 575 U.S. higher education community representatives, 60 EducationUSA education experts from around the world, and government officials convened to share best practices on how to recruit, retain, engage, and support international students on American campuses. Participants discussed traditional and virtual recruiting strategies, promoting access through digital resources, emerging trends in international student mobility, community college outreach, and more.
Key foreign policy issues such as climate change, global security, and human rights will require that leaders in science, technology, business, and policy possess the knowledge and skills developed through overseas study. The EducationUSA network assists with this effort, hosting over 400 student advising centers in 177 countries. EducationUSA also administers the Opportunity Funds Program that assists highly talented students who lack the funds to cover the upfront American college and university application costs.
The efforts of the Forum and EducationUSA to create an inclusive, diverse population of international students around the world is essential to building the next generation of leaders abroad and right here at home in the United States. This is supported by the State Department and bolsters our commitment to engaging Americans on foreign affairs. We believe that internationalizing U.S. institutions is important because when American students learn from their international peers, or study abroad themselves, they significantly enhance their worldviews, perspectives, and working capabilities to meet today's global challenges.
Editor's Note: This blog was brought to you by #EngageAmerica, a State Department public outreach program that strives to maintain an ongoing dialogue with you, the American public, about the important value of diplomacy and its tangible impact on American lives.
To learn more about the EducationUSA Forum, check out the conversation on Twitter using #EdUSAForum.
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The importance of education is one of the most prominent things that the human needs of science, because it meets all their basic needs, which seeks behind her, and education is a beacon that guided the people to the right path, which Saslkouna in this life, in addition to that education is the reason for appearing, progress and greatness, and this not only on the individual level; it is at the state level also, the state that keeps its educational system is a state that excels in all areas and at all levels, whether social or cultural or economic or military and in all other areas, which is why education is very essential for any country seeking behind the well-being of its people and their growth. Education has been and remains the first incubator for creativity as well as many other things, but that science polished creativity when a person, for example, increases the beauty of the music if instrumentalist educated to musicology, and increase the ability of working in the auto repair if the student of mechanical engineering, and so on; Valmohbh or skill when it meets science gets creative and evolving, hence every talented person him to polish his talent in science as much as possible; because science is the secret of success is a gem way too. Recipes learner nor can any person or persons to be a world in a certain order, if not possess the qualities that enable it to acquire this knowledge, it is the most prominent qualities that must be on each of the intended learning possess: patience, perseverance and seriousness in seeking knowledge; Patience and perseverance are Sbalan because man has beneficial knowledge will benefit him and benefit the people around him; for he was not aware of without them, asked the flag may be difficult in many cases, and the times which makes many people are distancing themselves from it, because of what caused the narrow them, but if they knew how much interest Segnoha of teach them what they did. Is a big mistake to link science to rule alone; Education is not be material only for goals, even if the economy is today an anchor on the knowledge, but there are other objectives of science should be her attention; science develops the brain, gives a human abilities were not present to him, logical like thinking for example, which should be acquired by engineering and scientific disciplines students, as well as self-control, which could be acquired by the students of the humanities and in particular religious science students, and this shows that the effects of science on human more than to prepare or numerous to count, and therefore everyone must The science behind the pursuit of a serious pursuit.
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yikes oh smikes i am so behind on the giveaways. there are still 4 more that i owe y'all after this one. let's see how caught up i can get in this next week.
this one is a celebration of the fact that i have sewn nothing in about 6 weeks. thank god i am not a frontier mama and my gestating babe's wardrobe doesn't rely on how much i can weave, knit and sew before he/she arrives.
now, there isn't much selection, but how about you can have anything you want in my etsy shop. ha. sorry if you're not into jewelry rolls or yoga, that's all i got going on right now.
-leave a comment with which item you'd want. and maybe why you think my marriage is going to last after all. one entry per person.
i'll randomly pick a comment as the winner on tuesday afternnoon. straight up.
I would LOVE the "Travel Jewelry Roll Clutch Bag Brown and White". It's so cute and would be perfect for all my insane amount of travelling this summer.
Also, your marriage is going to survive because you all have such an amazing foundation and are ridiculously perfect for each other. I don't know you that well Keight, but just from reading this blog I know you are so perfect for Jesse.
well I have both things. I don't want you to feel like I'm a bad blogger and don't want your crafts...I just have those things. If I win randomly will you make me something totally new? or a lunchbox? that would be Grrrrrrrrrrrrreeeaaaat!
I want the brown and white jewelry roll! I need, need, need it for travels this summer (I hope).
And I think your marriage will survive because you're too stubborn to throw in the towel just yet! Not that being stubborn is a bad thing. I'm beyond stubborn and completely hard-headed, too. Ha!
And I dig the Travel Jewelry Roll Clutch Bag Brown and White. Peace.
umm, I already won the best jewelry roll you ever did make, and I don't do yoga. but I like to win. if you would throw in a lunch bag I seem to remember reading about somewhere, consider me entered! or consider me entered anyways and i'll give the prize as a gift. but only to someone awesome and worthy.
I'd like the yoga bag and I'll send it over to Kristen... don't know her, but she commented first and she is actually starting yoga.
Your marriage will last because of blog support, duh!
Hi! I would like the blue jewelry roll.
I've been thinking about my answer to the marriage question, and it comes down to a promise and hard work. You and Jesse made a promise, and (with God's help) I know you can keep it.
i know...i've been a comment slacker, sorry! i would love to have anything your precious hands made! you know that i REALLY want the jewelery roll! but WAY more than that i want you & jess to be together, forever. my main reason is so that SATAN does NOT get the victory! in my personal opinion, he's already got way too much! i was cranky the other day & your words were in my head, "what is it that i really want? not arguing, but to spend more time with my hubby!" thank you for your continuous honesty. next time you need a sitter, i'll hop on a plane to atl! love you much much much! hang in there... let jesus get the victory!
So, YO!!!!! I'm a new follower of the totally rad and super fad JUDAH!!! And, that is why I should be the great recipient of the BROWN AND BLUE JEWELRY ROLL!!!! We are headed to the beach VERY soon and it would SOOO come in handy! Plus, I think I need a parting prize because due to the oil slick, we had to change our reservations...which cost us $185.00!!!!!! So, I could be the winner of this jewelry roll and we could THEN say that I paid $185.00 for it, ya know?!?!?! haha!
And, YES MA'AM your marriage is GONNA work.... If for nothing else, because you are the COOLEST and BEST blogger EVER!!! And, why would the hubby EVER let that go????


In our city, finding stuff from faraway places is easy, and, when it comes to giving gifts, it shows you have imagination and style! Barring an affinity for the mundane, what reason is there not to check out a few emporiums that have eclectic assortments of odds-bodkin imports?
This shop is a mini-museum with genuine Soviet military uniforms, rare KGB badges, and antique Russian coins. Matrioshkas, Russian nested dolls, are priced from $5 a set all the way up to one that costs $3,000, with the tiniest doll being about the size of a peppercorn. These dolls represent the generations within a family and traditionally are presented by family members.
Depending on the weight and quality of the workmanship, amber jewelry is priced from $4 to $50 or more. A butterscotch-colored polished amber and silver necklace is $849. If shopping makes you hungry, try some Russian refreshments: a steaming bowl of borscht with a pirogi, or a rogaliki, with hot tea and cherry preserves.
Russian Island is located on the third level of the Galleria overlooking the ice rink; phone 1.817.275.5530.


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Condolence Message: Nozithelo "Stombiza" Dube: *13 October 1998 – 19 March 2021
by Felix Silundika | Mar 22, 2021 | Blog | 1 comment
Felix F Silundika – Project Manager: TGSCCC
Miss Nozithelo Dube aka ''Stombiza,'' 23, of Gala Village, Bulilima District in Matabeleland South, Zimbabwe passed away on the 19th March 2021, succumbing to the injuries she sustained in a still yet to be explained inferno that consumed the building that she lived in, in Cape Town, South Africa. The family was left devastated after notification from the local hospital after a few days to say that she was no longer responding to treatment. She eventually transitioned that same day, a development which has left not only her family and close relatives totally devasted, but also the many people whom she had met and befriended over the years.
Nozithelo had moved to Cape Town, South Africa in the last two years to join her older siblings who like many other Zimbabweans have emigrated to that country in search for better opportunities. In her short stay in Cape Town, Nozithelo, had found part time employment and was taking driving lessons at the same time.
Before she moved to South Africa Nozithelo, popularly known as "Stombiza" in her Gala community, touched the hearts of many people by her kindness, often volunteering to mentor younger children at a local primary school and regularly did all what she ever was asked of her in service to her community. She had also completed a computer skills course in the city of Bulawayo. She was clearly on the move, eager to take up her place in society as a professional young woman.
After the establishment of the TGSCCC, the TG Silundika Cultural Community Centre at Gala Village in 2016, Nozithelo became a prominent member who participated in all its events throughout the time she was resident at the village. She often volunteered her time reaching out to and recruiting her peers to attend community workshops and other scheduled events at the centre. Whenever she was called upon to speak, she did so with a rare kind of eloquence and leadership skills.
She is survived by her parents, Mr and Mrs M. K. Dube and six siblings. She was the youngest of the Dube children. She is also survived by many relatives, many loving aunts and uncles and a host of friends.
Funeral arrangements are still being worked out and will be made known in due course.
Meanwhile, the family is appealing for assistance in the form of financial donations to cover the costs involved. Please contact Nerissa at +27 84 528 4107.
Benjamin Makhari Ndlovu on 22nd March 2021 at 23:21
Indeed she left without any goodbye to others and never met some of us but through her parents ..sisters her image is telling most of her story she was a great kid…we lost an emerging icon RIP Stombile its was God's plans .


One of Beverley's newest restaurants has been awarded a glittering review by a Sunday Times food guru.
Marina O'Loughlin's review of the Pig & Whistle was published over the weekend and has been described by the writer and food critic as 'terrific'.
After describing Beverley as 'York's slightly goofier sister', O'Loughlin immediately praises the bistro's open kitchen and 'handsome meat slicer', as well as the venue's wine list.
Perhaps the most alluring statement is the review of the lunchtime croquet menu, which has been described as the 'very definition of heaven' for the self-confessed bread-and-cheese obsessive.
O'Loughlin writes: "Despite its name, this terrific little restaurant is far from Brexity true-Brit: it's more like the bewitching love child of Italian fiaschetteria, Spanish tapas bar and French bistro. A long roll of brown craft paper on the wall lists any number of mostly British cheeses, each one beautifully kept; a blackboard talks sexily of rillettes, tartines and baked vacherin.
"The chef and owner, James Allcock, is ex-Gordon Ramsay's stable, and you can sense his glee-filled sigh of relief at the loosening of the fine-dining corsetry. Cooked dishes might feature quite a lot of glorious dairy — ours were breast of local pheasant "à la Normande", heady with cream and cider; and tartiflette potatoes honking with ripe reblochon, garlic and rosemary.


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Football Features
Who is Sebastien Haller? Frankfurt's "bulldozer" looks tailor-made for France (and maybe West Ham)
Published: 17:05, 15 July 2019
Before his bumper move to Real Madrid, Luka Jovic was the name we closely associated with Eintracht Frankfurt last season, but former strike partner Sebastien Haller made substantially more noise than the new galactico.
Haller rose to relative prominence in 2017/18, but truly excelled in the Bundesliga last term, contributing to more league goals than any player in the Frankfurt squad, including Jovic.
The clinical finisher is, quite simply, a standard-bearer of traditional No 9s, a throwback centre-forward who has become a hallmark of Die Adler's scintillating attack.
Under the guidance of Adi Hutter last campaign, the Hesse-based club reached the Europa League semi-final and finished a respectable seventh in the Bundesliga.
That was in no small part thanks to the involvement of Haller in the final third, with the Frenchman directly contributing towards 40 per cent of Frankfurt's league output (15 goals, nine assists) – despite starting just 23 matches.
And although Frankfurt have already lost Jovic, the club's attacking ranks could once again be plundered, with reports suggesting West Ham are in talks over a proposed £40m deal to bring the 25-year-old to England.
But what is the playing style of this French forward who outdid Jovic in the league last season and what will Manuel Pellegrini be expecting if a move does materialise? Read on to find out more…
Sébastien Haller's record across all competitions in 2018-19:
• 41 games
• 20 goals
• 12 assists
One of the most effective target men in Europe last season. pic.twitter.com/h3CsZi04Pi
— Squawka Football (@Squawka) July 12, 2019
At 6 ft 3 in, Haller is something of an old school centre-forward, but he possesses qualities that far exceed the stereotype of his towering presence. At a glance, Haller could appear a rugby prop masquerading as a striker, but when the Frenchman takes to the pitch, it immediately becomes clear just how good he is with the ball at his feet.
Blessed with an eye for goal, power and exceptional link-up play, Haller could be classified as the complete striker: a player who can create a myriad of shooting opportunities for his teammates, but someone who also has a marked penchant for finding himself in the right place at the right time.
Haller's hold-up play is also second to none, and one of the main reasons Jovic flourished at the Commerzbank-Arena last term, with the Frenchman laying it on a plate for him five times.
An ambipedal forward, Haller is also proficient with either foot, and such has been his rapid ascent that compatriot and Juventus legend, David Trezeguet, has even been name-checked as an appropriate comparison – the two clearly share similar traits, not least their near-identical frames – while former coach and current Bayern Munich manager, Niko Kovac, has previously described him as a "bulldozer".
Haller began his career with Auxerre, initially emerging onto the scene as a talented 17-year-old tyro in the 2012/13 season, appearing 18 times but finding the back of the net just twice.
He found more playing time at the Stade de l'Abbe-Deschamps the following season, featuring 28 times, but the goals were still few and far between with just six across all competitions, and he would ultimately leave the comforts of his homeland for pastures new.
READ MORE: How four possible Marko Arnautovic replacements can fit into West Ham's attack next season
A successful loan move to FC Utrecht in 2015 yielded 11 goals in 17 Eredivisie appearances and prompted the Dutch outfit to secure his services on a permanent basis.
And it was here at the Stadion Galgenwaard, under the auspices of now Ajax boss Erik ten Hag, where Haller really started to attract attention and develop into a player of real substance.
He made serene progress in the Netherlands, scoring 40 goals across 81 appearances between 2015/16 and 2016/17, helping the club reach the KNVB Cup final in 2016, and winning the Di Tommaso Trophy award for Utrecht's player of the year in 2015, encouraging Eintracht Frankfurt to eventually make a move for him in the summer of 2017.
There was some scepticism in the Rhine-Ruhr Region upon the arrival of Haller but he soon silenced the critics by scoring nine goals across all competitions during the first half of the 2017/18 Bundesliga season.
However, that purple patch wouldn't last too long as he experienced a difficult Ruckrunde, netting just three goals after the winter break as Frankfurt finished eighth in the league, sparking rumours of a possible departure over the summer.
That considered, Haller attracted plenty of plaudits and admiring glances during his maiden campaign, helping the club clinch the highly-coveted DFB-Pokal, at the expense of Bayern Munich, as well as being awarded the Bundesliga Goal of the Year for his acrobatic scissor kick against Stuttgart – a sublime piece of improvisation…
Well that's one way to win a game 👏
Sébastien Haller with a scissor kick in the last minute for Frankfurt. pic.twitter.com/GwKc7vYXyN
— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) October 1, 2017
As such, last summer's managerial appointment, Adi Hutter, sought to retain his services and he went on to become a vital cog in the club's devastating attacking triumvirate, alongside Jovic and Ante Rebic, proving himself a priceless commodity in German football, as the 25-year-old finished the joint-fifth highest Bundesliga scorer (15).
France call-up on the horizon?
Haller has already spoken publicly of his desire to follow in the footsteps of his idol, Thierry Henry, and don the famous blue attire of the France national team, but has he done enough to sway Didier Deschamps?
Fortunately for Haller, Deschamps has a propensity to deploy a more traditional centre-forward in his system, be it in a 4-3-3, 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1, hence the prolonged inclusion of Olivier Giroud.
Kylian Mbappe has been largely utilised on the wing, Antoine Griezmann likewise, though the latter has often been stationed through middle either as the main striker or alongside Giroud.
But with Giroud's ability significantly on the wane and a distinct lack of playing time under his belt, Haller could be the ideal, like-for-like, replacement ready to restore vibrancy and introduce a new dimension of physicality, as well as attacking prowess to the France XI.
As an archetypal No 9, Haller is perhaps the perfect Giroud replacement and someone who could assist both Mbappe and Griezmann, as demonstrated with his almost telepathic link-up play with Jovic last campaign.
Many feel that with Giroud entering his twilight years and not the force he once was, Deschamps may be tempted to tinker with his tactics and deploy a more neat and nimble forward through the middle. But why change an unbroken system?
Deschamps won the World Cup adopting this philosophy and would be foolish to shuffle the pack when a quintessential No 9 is staring him right in the face.
Could Haller be the answer to West Ham's striker prayers?
For years West Ham have been searching for that much-vaunted, much-desired, 20-goal a season striker, but have so far fallen flat on their faces.
Maxi Gomez became the latest high-profile forward to reject a move to the London Stadium, while Javier Hernandez hasn't quite been able to demonstrate a capacity to score on a consistent basis in the capital.
And so, the Hammers have now turned to Haller, a player with all the tools to prosper in the Premier League, but what could he truly offer Pellegrini?
Well, in the Bundesliga last season, no striker assisted more goals (9) than Haller, while he also created the second-most big chances (13) and fourth-most key passes (35), showing his expert ability to link play.
The Frenchman also won more duels (291), as well as more aerial duels (201), than any Bundesliga forward, which is a testament to his work rate and physical stature.
In terms of his goalscoring ability, only Lewandowski (19) and Wout Weghorst (15) scored more big chances than him (14), though he does possess a better big chance conversion rate (58.33%), shot conversion rate (28.3%) and shooting accuracy (60.98%) than the Bayern striker, Jovic and Marco Reus among other big names. In layman's term: give Haller a chance and he will likely score.
With the likes of Pablo Fornals now on the books in east London, as well as a return to full fitness for Manuel Lanzini, not to mention Andriy Yarmolenko and Jack Wilshere, Haller would have more than enough quality behind him to take the Premier League by storm and who knows, maybe even answer West Ham's seemingly perennial striker conundrum.
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I began my study of martial arts at a young age. From the beginning, I was one of those trouble-making students who always asked too many questions. Unfortunately, my early martial arts teachers didn't know the answers to these questions. Worse, they didnt seem to care. I had to look elsewhere. I was most interested in internal power. Was it real? How could it be relevant to throwing a punch or knocking someone down? If internal power really existed, how could I develop it? I sensed that there were deep and powerful secrets to uncover. I was never satisfied with training that was based solely on the physical and that did not incorporate less substantial aspects of energy and subtlety. My search for answers led me to esoteric studies found in the internal Chinese martial arts. First in the U.S. and later in Taiwan and China I sought out teachers who could give instruction in the internal energy arts.
Eventually I found that internal power is real, and has healing and martial applications. In terms of the martial, the skill can be demonstrated when proper physical mechanics are used in conjunction with internal methods, such as that found in taijiquan or baguazhang. This skill represents a special kind of internal force that is unique and distinctly different in appearance and effect from the way the use of force is normally observed and felt. An internal power punch, for example, delivered in a relaxed manner and from a few inches awayactually no more than a tapcan have an effect much greater than suggested by its appearance. However, while it is a unique kind of force, generally appearing light and effortless to observers, it is not unique to the martial arts. It may manifest in any undertaking that requires the merging of human will with intense concentration, spirit and athletic skill. In most cases internal power happens by chance, appearing as athletic gift or naturalness to a lucky individual. However, one may also bring it about through careful training.
Internal power manifests when there is a merging of physical mechanics with what we might term physical-energetic poles. In terms of the internal martial arts, it is the result of a special kind of force brought about by solving the puzzle at the core of the healing and martial arts: how to find the proper relationship between energy and structure. For internal artists, the key to the puzzle is to correctly balance the poles of physical mechanics with sensitive (the so-called soft) energetic methods.
In terms of the internal arts, the ideal is to combine physical mechanics with energetic principles from ancient (nei tan) Daoist yogic methods developed by Chinese alchemists long ago.1 These, matched in just the right way, result in the manifestation of a special force. This force is very elusive and may disappear in a moment. It is the result of the merging of human will with trained (or gifted, natural) ways of making the body move efficiently (what I call mechanics). When this happens, the effect sometimes appears as if by magic. The manifestation of this magic represents the merging of human will with physical form and consciousness.
Internal power manifests in various ways, determined by training, inherent gifts and intent of the practitioner. In some cases its effect appears as a light touch that throws an opponent several feet, or flick of the wrist, elbow or palm which generates an electric-shock effect to an opponent from a strike initiated a few inches away. Although this article examines one area of internal power: the martial; it should be noted that internal power is manifested outside of the martial arts. Most notably it may be focused as healing force which can exponentially increase the effect of herbal prescriptions, needles or traditional massage. However, in almost all martial art examples, the manifestation of internal force represents merging poles of physical and energetic skills.
The merging of the poles, because of their nature, is difficult to achieve...like in identically polarized magnets which resist unity. Speaking metaphysically, when merging of physical and energetic poles does occur, the result can be said to be a minor representation of the power of the Dao. Often opposing poles act like opposing forces that are unified in the briefest moment of space and time as their power merges is initiated and then released.
Symbolically the merging can be compared to the creation of steam, the by-product of the attempt to merge water and fire. This idea has been used as an explanation for internal energy far back into Chinese roots. It is evidenced by the etymology of the Chinese character for qi (chi) being a pictogram of a wisp of steam floating off the essence of freshly cooked grains of rice.
It seems to be the nature of poles to attempt to become dominant. Likewise, there is a tendency for practitioners to fall toward either the energy based or physical mechanics pole in their thinking and practice. Thus, either the pole of mechanics, or the pole of sensitivity and soft methods often becomes dominant. The problem is that dominance of one pole prevents the requisite merging of forces and sadly, the true magic is easily lost. When the poles are balanced and fully utilized there is power; and high level skill can be demonstrated. Short of real combat, this may be one of the only ways to test the validity of the internal as self-defense art.
Below I address the issue of the poles and share some insights that one might use to uncover the keys to the puzzle of internal power for oneself. But first I will digress for just a moment and discuss a way of revealing physical evidence of the presence of internal art skill through demonstration.
Talk, especially that which includes claims about power and abilities, without demonstration, is less effective than it was even a few years ago. I find the public, unless the speaker backs up claims with some type of demonstration, less impressed and more impatient with theories of internal power abilities. Todays climate is one of ultimate fighting contests and schools of martial arts that emphasize aggressive approaches. This has created an environment in which it is more important than ever for those claiming to teach the internal arts as effective self-defense be willing to illustrate the unique skills developed by their arts.
To an increasingly pragmatic public, demonstration of core principles that make the internal martial arts both internal and martial is essential. However, to do this requires defining and demonstrating a set of key principles, principles that can be demonstrated in a way that allows prospective students to experience the magic for themselves. Do you believe that soft and seemingly gentle arts can be effective in real and seriouseven life and deathencounters? Do you also believe that such an art can be demonstrated with a minimum amount of force or aggression? Many of my colleagues affirm these statements. We feel strongly that we, as instructors of the internal arts as serious self-defense, follow the examples of well-known past masters who were willing to demonstrate their skill, and we must, like them, be willing to demonstrate principles in a way that is safe, non-violent and non-aggressive to anyone. In this vein, I believe that we, just as in the case of the famous master Wang Xiangzhai and others in the early 1900s, should be willing to enter into comparative discussion and demonstration of our art.
Demonstrating the effectiveness of ones internal art to the potential student serves three valuable functions. First, it presents a model. It shows how the principles and mechanics of such an art are effective and illustrates the basic concepts that make it so. Second, it allows the prospective student to see what skill might be attainable after a course of study. Finally, it gives the prospect the opportunity to judge the value of the investment first hand before committing to the program.
Realistic self-defense aspects of the internal art is essential. Liu Men-Gen instructs Dave Phelps in Beijing in finer points of neutralizing force.
As briefly introduced above, today, in both Asia as well as in the West, too many internal martial art teachers tend to be drawn either to the pole of the physical-mechanical model or the soft-and-sensitive energy model. A practitioner of the first type embraces physical mechanics and structure. Often, while demonstrating muscular control, power, and strength, this type of teacher places minimal attention, if any, to the development of sensitivity methods. While downplaying the mystical aspects of the martial arts, this point of view sees the answer to the puzzle as pure structure, mechanical leverage, alignment and technique. I do not believe that this approach, standing on its own, does justice to the uncanny and elusive nature of soft power arts. This type of power has been well documented in the record of many famous masters of the twentieth century who had the ability to lightly touch and defeat an opponent without recourse to physical tension, nor over reliance on structure and mechanics.
Examples from the other pole, one that emphasizes extreme softness, today dominate the internal arts, especially in taijiquan (tai chi chuan). Those that subscribe to this model often minimize or eliminate solid structure mechanics, and even the importance of self-defense ability in the search for the truth of the inner arts.
The author's late teacher demonstrates the exercise around the time of his 86th birthday.
It is not difficult to find examples of this approach in the parks in China or taiji new age circles in the West. Practitioners who are under the gravitational influence of this pole tend to eliminate or disavow what they consider the aggressive methods of the more physical and external approaches, which are replaced by soft methods and sensitivity. In some cases practitioners of this type will, in a public forum, criticize a teacher or method that promotes the more physical and practical self-defense side for suggesting that the arts be considered useful for self-defense. When pressed, this type of practitioner will claim that qualities such as lightness (and of course, non-competition), will lead the aspirant to knowledge of self, attainment one day of the ultimate level of self-defense, while perhaps even finding the Dao along the way.
Based on 35 years of experience, I've come to the conclusion that both sides in this argument are rightand wrong. One needs both strong mechanics and good sensitivity to develop real internal power. The best approach is one that accommodates both poles: the physical/ mechanical with the light, sensitive, and even the mystical side. In my experience, the essence of the secret lies in this middle ground where electric soft energy methods merge with the hard reality of physical mechanics. This is the message I find in the perennial Daoist icon of the phenomenon of the universe: that strange, yet fascinating symbol of the primordial co-mingling, the interplay of opposing primal forces of the yin and yang diagram.
A balanced approach that merges the two poles is more than philosophy, it is the application of yogic principles developed by Daoist alchemists long ago. It is based on a fundamental idea that a tremendous energy may be expressed when conditions are right and opposing poles merge. It is the key to the puzzle of internal power that is activated by merging physical mechanics with internal energy. But, before we look at some examples of how and when the poles merge, let us consider aspects of them separately.
The first pole involves physical mechanics. It applies toward what is real, concrete and mechanical to the internal arts. This aspect involves: 1) learning efficiency and mastering hidden (unseen) leverage,2) attaining root, the art of optimizing strength and effect by correct alignment in relation to the ground, and 3) learning to release, instead of forcing or pushing power (similar to the way a star pitcher throws a baseballa practice involving a totally interconnected spring-like release). These are all very important, but only one side of training. The other is more obscure and difficult to describe.
As I've watched students learn to develop and control their internal energy, in general, those who have been most successful start with the development of sensitivity. First they develop sensitivity to their own internal and external energy field, the movement of energy within their own system, and then they become sensitive to the energy fields of others. Thus, sensitivity is the first step that leads to the ability to use soft and relaxed methods in a real confrontation.
The idea of sensing and manipulating ones internal energy, distinct from a kind of respiratory therapy (one involving the qi of the air that one breathes), first appeared in Chinese culture relatively late. The theoretical construct of a distinct energy, inner qi taken by many today as the most central concept of Chinese yoga, traditional medicine and the internal artswas developed within Daoist internal alchemy traditions in the middle of the Tang Dynasty (618-906 CE). At that time nei qi, literally internal energy, began to be described by some Daoists searching for the secret of immortality as the animator of the mind and bodys interior change. In terms of internal arts, the doctrine of internal qi is most important. It is the basis of how we, in the internal healing and martial arts, think of qi today. It has become the underlying assumption in multitudinous mind-body health disciplines, especially in disciplines of taijiquan, qigong, Daoist meditation and asian traditional healing arts such as acupuncture. All of these involving various methods to get in touch with, develop, or balance internal qi.
However, when the subject of internal energy is broached, one immediately faces the problem of defining it. The search for understanding of this mysterious and enigmatic energie vitale has been one of the most important parts of my martial and healing art practice. In my experience, most students of the internal healing and martial arts will say they experience a subtle energy field which, they believe, courses within and around the body. The crux of the problem of understanding qi is that one cannot explain what it is. It must be experienced for oneself.
Long before it was adapted into martial arts, the study of internal energy known in Eastern cultures as prana, kundalini, ki or qi, was developed into a mind-body discipline of health, longevity and personal power in select Indian and Chinese yogic arts. As discussed above, it was the organizing principle of traditional medicinefor the alchemists of pre-modern China it became the focus of the arts of healing self and others through its manipulation and balance. Although qi has not yet been proven to exist by western scientific methods, I do not think it is superstitious, irrational or foolish to believe in it, or have a sincere interest in it. Focusing for a moment on the energy and sensitivity pole defined above, I want to write about my own experience. Later I will discuss.
It is an intrinsic organistic energy field flux that is a unitary process, derived from, but superseding the individual energies of the different organs.
I am certain that, in time, qi will be demonstrated to be a fundamental force in scientific biology. It will be shown to exist as part of physical reality that neither depends on, nor challenges, religious beliefs and is just as real and potent as the invisible neuro-electrical signals that keep that regulate the hearts role as a life pump. The question for artists, internal teachers and healers is in deciding whether or not they will work today within the tentative understandings of internal energy and its promises of health and power or wait the ten or twenty years for the phenomena to be accepted by mainstream science.
Perhaps the best way to think of qi is as an energy matrix. A brilliant scientist who had once conducted classified research on the subject suggested this model to me. Qi, this scientist told me, most likely acts as a kind of information-intelligence system operating within the bodys subtle electro-magnetic system. This system, while working within the confines of the subtlest of detectable electro-magnetics, is busily conveying data, the function of which is to organize nervous system, thoughts, and emotions throughout the holistic-unity seeking human body. In this light, the qi energy matrix may be a conveyor of intelligence between the bodys life support, emotional and survival systems that work alongside of, yet independent from, the central nervous system. The researcher used this model to explain a type of internal energy punch he witnessed.9 The strike was delivered to its recipient from a few inches away, with no obvious mechanics or weight behind it, and appearing to be no more than a light tap, had a significant effect on the experimental subject. The demonstration also produced physical evidence in the appearance of an approximately 3-? inch spot on the opposite side of the recipients body. The scientist suggested that this type of punch and its demonstrable effect was most likely not due to direct electro-magnetic or other energy, but was brought about by a subtle information set encoded in the strike.
I first felt qi as a real experience about 22 years ago. My ability to sense and work with internal energy directly in an experiential and tactile way began shortly after I treated Sri Surath, a Bahki yoga master from India. Surathji was suffering from a serious illness, but refused to take any modern Western medication. On one of his trips to the West, a disciple asked me to see if I could help. After an interview and subsequent approval, I was granted the rare privilege of being allowed to treat the Brahman with traditional Chinese bodywork.
It was only a short time after my work with Sri Surath that I began to experience increased and (to me at that time) strange energetic sensations. Later, as I look back on those experiences, I realize that I was beginning to experience aspects of the internal pole. I will not write about my experiences in detail here, except to say that my thinking about human energy changed radicallymoving from the theoretical to the experiential. Whether my working with Surathji had anything to do with it, or whether by chance, coincidence or blessing, I cannot say for certain. However, the way I trained and thought about such things had forever changed. I began to sense subtle bio-energetic life fields both internally and externally to my body. As I became more sensitive to these fields, I was able to achieve greater success in both martial and healing practice. It was very empowering to experience the reality of a subtle bio-energetic field and to find that it was possible for me to sense and control it. Increasingly, I became a believer in the value of personal experience of internal energy as well as an adherent of the dual pole theory: one that placed importance not only on physical mechanics, but that also included developing awareness of, and training for, the internal energy field.
Keeping the timing right. Beijing senior internal artists Yang and Jou regularly train in application as well as form.
It is easier today, when compared to three decades ago, to be open to ideas about qi and subtle energetic fields. When I was a young student (and we used to walk 20 miles uphill and barefoot in the snow to get to class), even the most basic aspects of energy medicine such as acupuncture were suspect. These days there is enough scientific evidence to allow one to be publicly curious about the human energy field. without being burned at the stake. Consider the pioneering work of respected scientists such as Dr. Robert Becker, who has done research to support the existence of the subtle human bio-energy field or that of Harvards Dr. David Eisenberg,11 currently a premiere investigator involved with placing traditional Chinese and energy medicine into Western scientific understanding. Thus, it is no longer unscientific to consider the physical reality of the bio-energy field. However, training of a human to develop sensitivity to the field still requires faith.
The late Master Liu demonstrates Lotus Palm qigong.
I feel strongly that the ability to sense and develop internal energy is related to personal and social evolution13. It is personal since each individual has the potential to sense and develop internal energy and positively influence his or her personal growth and understanding through the process. It pertains to social evolution through its universality and positive potential consequences to society. If it really is the basis of human energy, health, and a higher order mind-body integration this suggests attributes that speak to the underlying codes of the human spirit and potential that go beyond differences in culture or religion.
However, as I can attest, the ability to perceive the bio-energetic field does not mean that one has attained some kind of personal perfection. The activation of latent skills, because of the degree of introspection and sensitivity required, usually indicates evolution in progress, or at least the aspiration toward advancement. This evolution is characterized as the ongoing, transformation and exchange of coarseness for subtlety. In practical terms it requires giving up callousness and tension in form and mind and replacing them with sensitivity. In human terms, it makes one gentler. In internal martial and healing arts it manifests as less need to resort to obvious strength or technique alone, relying instead on lightness of touch. In healing terms, sensitivity like this opens the doorway to being able to medically intuit the cause and cure of pain or disease and assist the patients energy in the healing process.
One of the best places to look at the key to the merging of the poles of physicality and internal energy is in the principle of sung or loose and connected power. Sung14 is the merging point between the hard and soft. Its hardness is the manifestation of the power of a spring-steel whip delivered with minimal effort. Its softness is the ability of the whip to adapt, manipulate and express power through its fluid-like, changing medium. There are various techniques used by internal masters to get students to attain this soft yet connected power. They all involve the merging of hardness and softness, of stillness and movement: the blending of the two poles. The principles they use were derived from ancient Daoist naturalistic yogas. Some of the best methods of learning inner connection and alignment can be gleaned from the study of these early roots of the internal arts.
The Daoist yogas, or Dao Yin, are among the best ways to merge physical form and internal energy. These exercises originated as attempt to bridge the secrets of life and death and attain physical immortality. The literature of these alchemical traditions, a blending of philosophical Daoism with a declining Yin-Yang school, first appeared in China during the third century CE. The work of the early Daoist yogis led to the creation of the first systematic physiotherapeutic tradition and laid internal energy and physical principle groundwork for what was to become the internal martial arts 1,400 years later. Significantly, the physical training aspects of these arts required Daoist sages to master control and coordination of muscle groups that are not normally under conscious control. This set of knowledge and training method was later to become the basis of the unique physiomuscular mechanics of the internal martial arts. Along with this development came the peculiar internal alchemy terminology and theory such as lien tan (exercising the essential energy) and the melding of the three aspects of internal qi: Shen, Qi, Ching. The development of these was to become the root theory and the central goal of the internal martial and healing art systems as a way of merging of energy and structure. However the nexus where structure, form, mind, will and energy merge is delicate and the process of integrating the knowledge with physical form is one that requires the lightest touch.
Note: This article is part of a collection of writings by internal martial art professionals to be published as Journeys with the Taoist Warriors: a Quest for truth in the Alchemical Fighting Arts. Edited by Alex Kozma. To be published summer 2002.
2. Note exception for very high level practitioners who seem to suspend dependence on physical principles. In this article I am describing principles of physical and energetic merging, not yin-yang polarity within the body that creates and allows the manifestation of internal energy.
3. Wang Xiangzhai, the founder of Yi Quan (Mind-Boxing), gave a series of interviews that were published in 1940 in the Beijing newspapers Shibao and Xinbao. In this highly recommended reading, Master Wang was emphatic regarding the importance of free and open demonstration of skills and advocates open and friendly comparison and tests of realistic self-defense abilities to be essential for the preservation of the art.
4. Following Wang Xiangzhais example, this is most productive when done with sincerity and without attachment to being superior, or even getting a demo right every time. When I demonstrate, I try to keep in mind only the intent to show something of the physical magic in which, we as seniors in the field, have invested so many years of study.
5. The reader will note that I have purposely left out examples of specific demonstrations. How one teacher is able to demonstrate internal power will vary widely from the next. The main point is that 20 or more years in the art should produce objective skill in the practitioner.
6. Cheng Ting-Hua, Sun Lu-Tang, Yang Chen-Fu, Wang Xiangzhai and many other famous boxers.
8. Taken from a private letter to the author.
9. Most likely sent through a measurable, but barely detectable bio-electrical signal. This might be compared to a telephone which transmits data through a nearly faint electrical signal that is interpreted a certain way on the receiving end.
10. A good example is our blind spot, and the way our brain fills in the visual gap created by the blind spotthe place where the optic nerve attaches to the retina, thus creating a hole in the visual field. The visual impression of what is filled in by the gap is a fictional coloring of logical background that may, or may not exist. We all have these visual holes that we are not aware of. This illustrates the power of the mind to create the world that it believes exists.
13. The thesis of human energy systems as a vehicle for genius and evolution can be found in Gopi Krishnas writings and descriptions of his experiences.
14. Sung is the single most important concept in the internal martial arts. Not easily translated into English, it can be approximately translated as springy-ness or tenacity and can be used to describe the resilience of bamboo. A common use of the word in Chinese language is as an adjective to describe the springy-ness of correctly cooked rice.
By lightness, I am speaking of mental and physical aspects in respect to both healing and martial. Lightness of touch moves energy and Will through physical form in refined ways. The presence of this quality indicates lessening of the influence of the grossly physical in favor of sensitivity and refinement. Sensitivity and refinement of the nervous system indicates the tenuous merging of mind, will and structure. An adept applying this principle manifests skill as a slight touch that has a lot of effect in throwing, off-balancing or demonstrating power. A by-product is a profound effect on the practitioners nervous system, an attribute that speaks to the arts of the yogi and leads to development of a heightened and specialized control of the nervous system. With experience, these skills extend beyond physical boundaries of the practitioner as one becomes increasingly imbued intuitively knowing how to sense and adapt to minute changes in the opponents energy flow, structure, position and even intent.
For internal arts to maintain their relevance and meaning for future generations the true essence of the art must be revealed to the next and the next generation. This is best done with eliminating the tendency to be drawn toward either the pole of physical mechanics or sensitivity and internal energy.


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Q: Ruby on rails objects associations I have two objects - User and Reviews. One User can write many reviews, but one review can be written by one user. Every user has a picture. I have:
class Review < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :reviews
end

Why can't I do the following?
review.user.picture

A: You have to establish has_one/belongs_to associations on user/picture models and of course to have appropriate database migrations (foreign key user_id on picture table and foreign key user_id on review table).
Models look like:
class Review < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
end

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  has_many :reviews
  has_one :picture
end

class Picture
  belongs_to :user
end

To try it, first create data in rails console:
user = User.create
review = Review.create user: user
picture = Picture.create user: user

Now you can find user picture if you have only reference to review object. Exit console and run again and type:
review = Review.last
review.user.picture

It returns picture object.
More info:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html#choosing-between-belongs-to-and-has-one

A: Based on the info you provided, I'm assuming you still need to set up a foreign key in the database. The database migration for the the reviews table should look similar to this:
class CreateReviews < ActiveRecord::Migration
 def change
  create_table :reviews do |t|
   t.integer :user_id
   t.timestamps
  end
   add_index :reviews, :user_id
  end
end

Then you would be able to add a related user_id to a new review object. For instance, in rails console:
Review.new(user_id: 1)

Assuming that you defined picture as a column in your User table, you should be able to run review.user.picture without any issues.

A: Method
The bottom line is your picture method will not be present in your user model
You can either use an instance method to create some functionality in your User model, use an ActiveRecord Association, or use something like Paperclip to provide an appended object on your user object

Association
You'll need to create the correct association for your review & picture objects -
#app/models/user.rb
Class Review < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :reviews
   has_one  :picture
end

#app/models/picture.rb
Class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :user
end

This will allow you to call:
@review = Review.find params[:id]
@picture = @review.user.picture

A bonus tip for this is if you wanted to ensure compatibility with the law of dementer, you could use the delegate method in your user model:
#app/models/user.rb
Class User < ActiveRecord::Base
   ...
   delegate :attribute, to: :picture, prefix: true
end

This will allow you to call the likes of:
@review.user.picture_name

Paperclip
If you're using a picture model to store images, you may wish to use the likes of Paperclip to give you the ability to use the functionality of images in your Picture model:
#app/models/user.rb
Class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    ...
    delegate :url, to: :picture
end

#app/models/picture.rb
Class Picture < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_attached_file :picture
end

These will all help you. Using this answer with Иван Бишевац's will help you profusely :)


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